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  • Questions of Possibility

    Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form

    by David Caplan ...
    Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet, this study advances a new understanding ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • American Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Caplan ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminating examples, Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • SELinux by Example

    Using Security Enhanced Linux

    by Frank Mayer, David Caplan, Karl MacMillan ...
    SELinux: Bring World-Class Security to Any Linux Environment!SELinux offers Linux/UNIX integrators, administrators, and developers a state-of-the-art platform for building and maintaining highly secure solutions. Now that SELinux is included in the Linux 2.6 kernel—and delivered by default in Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other major distributions—it’s easier than ever to take ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Stone for Andrew Dunphy

    Narrative Obituary Verse and Song in Northern Cape Breton

    by Ronald David Caplan ...
    Ronald Caplan’s account of his search for song and obituary poetry and the tools for community survival in northern Cape Breton, as he learned about the in-home singing tradition and the community’s extraordinary devotion to the poet Andrew Dunphy—a person who might in other places have been an outcast. A hundred years before, Dunphy roamed northern Cape Breton, sharing the news, nursing the sick, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Rhyme's Challenge

    Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

    by David Caplan ...
    Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    American Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Caplan ...
    Narrated by Amir Abdullah ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 49 min

    With lively writing and illuminating examples, David Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country's distinctiveness. They advocate for novelty and for a break with what is perceived to be outmoded and foreign. On the other hand, American poetry ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook